The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-14
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.
Miss ELIZABETH p. PEABODY is much
improved in health this autumn, and is
busy with literary work.
Mrs. JOHNSON, superintendent Of
the woman's prison at Skerborn, Mass.
allows no alcoholic liquors to any in
mate, not even to those in the hospital.
Miss HENRIETTA J. WELLS. of class
'S7. Wellesley College, has been ap-
pointed teacher of music and Greek at
the Tilden Ladies' Seminary, West
Lebanon, N. IL
Mrs. ANTOIIETTE Brown BLACK
WELL has put her youngest daughter
to study in the school of Technology,
Boston. Mrs. Blackwell is herself a
graduate of Oberlin.
Miss FLORENCE GREENE, of Mon
treal, who saved her father last sum-
mer from being carried over the La
chine Rapids. has been presented with
the medal of the Royal Humane So
ciety of England.
Mis-. CASE. a real estate agent in
Chicago. makes speciality of renting
furnished houses, and she succeeds adj
mirably, because women understand
better than men what furnished
house requires, and how to show it.
The Providence Journal says: 1.-The
question of the admission of women to
Brown University will be decided some
other day. The distance to Cambridge
is not great, however, and the oppor-
tunities for the higher education OF
women increase in many other places.
We are little slow here, eventually
we shall catch up with the process
sion." Harvard 'Annex'-miles"
is thus proposed Rhode Island guide
board.
Miss MARY G. RURDETTE, sister Of
Bob Burdette. the huTOrist is win
ing approval in serious undertaking.
She delivers Sunday evening lectures
on religious topics. and bas good
audiences whenever she appears.
Miss Burdette is a woman of singular
earnestness and enthusiasm. She
has been for some years in charge OF
the Baptist Mission Training School in
Chicago, and is Corresponding Secre-
tary of the Baptist Women's Home
Missionary Society.
Mrs. MARIA S. PORTER contributed
the following verses on the seventy
eighth birthday of Oliver Wendell
Holmes:
We've brought the sweetest roses from our
garden by the sea,
With kindly birthday greetings, dear 'Autocrat,'
to thee.
And may their lips Of fragrance breathe more
than we can say
OF tender, loyal homage that fills our hearts to-
day.
"No smallest leaf Of laurel can be woven in thy
crown.
The world has paid its tribute in need OF high
God grant thee years of vigor. to sing, from day
to day,
Songs sweeter than these roses, dear poet
friend, we pray"
Mrs. JOSEPH CAREY. whose husband
represents Wyoming Territory in Con-
gress. says that while the presence OF
ladies has put complete check on the
drunkenness and bad language attend
ant on the ballot-box. it also makes
women very careful about discussing
each others characters and even mil
linery. "For example, if l said / had
seen Mrs. Blank in the same old bon.
net that she wore last year and Mrs.
Blank should hear of the remark. l
doubt if the lady would ever vote for
my husband again. This is triiiing
illustration, but it will show how re-
sponsible women may be made. and
how the suffrage acts as preventive
to careless or malicious gossip"
MAKE the case Of women our own.
Is any man willing to resign his own
right to vote, and trust his welfare and
his earnings entirely to the votes Of
others? Suppose any class of men
should condescendingly offer to settle
for us our capacity or our calling; to
vote for us, to choose our sphere
for us. how ridiculously impcrti-
nent we should consider it! Yet few
have the good sense to laugh at the
consummate impertinence with which
every bar-room brawler, every third
rate scribbler. undertakes to settle the
sphere of the Martineaus and the De
Staels. With what gracious condo
scension little men continue to lecture
and preach on ''the female sphere"
and female dutiesr'- Wendell R'se
lips.